Crossing Syria off the map of potential vacation destinations . . .

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

I need to graft my iPod to myself. You have no idea how much easier that'd make everything. But I do have a new respect for the Beatles. I think I'll be watching Yellow Submarine tonight in tribute. With incense, of course, because what tribute is complete without incense? (And I also assert that it's for medicinal purposes. I ache everywhere, and I don't like it.)

Cheers to us. We kick ancient magic and Christian butt. I gotta wonder, though, how did the fundies find the thingie? And for that matter, why did they touch it? I thought those fuckers think everything that doesn't have God's explicit stamp of approval is automatically Satan's, and magic usually falls into that category.

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[xp_daytripper]

Actually, God-botherers never have a problem with declaring magic a miracle when it suits them. From the look on the bloke's face, I think I broke God's Celestial Radio, at least to him. I've got some of the pieces to match up when I do the research thing and ask the expert for some advice...

Oh bollocks, Strange is going to pitch a fit when he finds out I broke it.

Hopefully the range of needles I have to have now will kill me first? I think I'm still tasting that water.

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

Well, what were you going to do? You couldn't understand a thing, and it was only getting worse, so smashy smashy was really the best option.

[xp_daytripper]

Well, it was the most fun option. Especially after the trouble that little bastard put us to.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

I have two questions, since I slept on the plane home.

1. How did you get those bruises?
2. Where did you get that hat?
3. Are they related.

Oh. That is three questions. Well then, a flurry of questions.

4. How did Doug get that bruise?
5. How many ice packs do we have? I have bruises.

I do not consider that man to be Christian. He may profess to be, but the second rule is "Love your neighbor as yourself." and he was not very loving or very neighborly. He also tried to headbutt me, and I suppose that always makes me cranky and ill-inclined to be as forgiving as I should.

But then, unlike our friend who is now in the custody of ... well, I hope it is the UN Troops, and not the Syrian or Iraqi government, I have never suggested that God is only on my side.

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

1. I may or may not have suggested that the tough-looking Syrian policeman who was giving me a cavity search could have enjoyed it more if he treated me better.

2. I bought it for forty bucks.

3. Yes.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

1. I have no words for you.
2. Still no words.
3. There shall be mocking. It is the only way I can cope with this news.

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

What can I say? I render women speechless.

[xp_daytripper]

Wait, hold up... you got arrested because of a hat? That makes me feel much better about surviving the pit and the falling rocks, only to be nearly drowned in a wading pool.

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

Remember the part where Syrians don't like Iraqis and Iraqis don't like Syrians and I don't like either? The Syrians decided I was a security threat because I owned a part of Iraqi military regalia which technically wasn't legal.

[xp_daytripper]

Didn't I tell you fashion was deadly? ;) Glad to see you in one piece, tho' - how did you get out? Trenchcoats stage a rescue?

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

Bitch, please. I kicked the door down and walked out with my head held high. And I stole a jeep.

(Guess which part of that is the lie.)

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

Let me guess. It somehow involved the Beatles?

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

4. Buttstroked by paranoid Iraqi military.

And no, Mark, I don't mean they patted me gently on the rear end.

[x-cypher.livejournal.com]

You win for bruising stories, but only because you have a cool hat to show for it.

We need more icepacks.

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

This is the joy of working in the Middle East and other places. The hat was the excuse they used to arrest you, Mark. And they have a point. Syria and Iraq regularly flip poison gas across the border. That tends to kill any chance of civility.

We work in places where getting caught means risking a quiet bullet to the back of the head. Don't ever try to tell yourself that isn't the case.

[x-pressive.livejournal.com]

After Tuesday, I'd have to be a complete and utter retard to think that, wouldn't I?

[x-gambit.livejournal.com]

Yes, but I have faith in your abilities.